Originally Posted by
brakechatter
Personally, I am not ok with the 70 hour guarantee for rsvs. When you are available for 18 days a month, while I as a lineholder get paid for 90 hours for 16 days a month, something is missing. This is where a "think tank" comes in handy. Put a bunch of heads together to come up with ideas, troubleshoot them, and get it done. I have sat through winters, summers in several bases on reserve. Never gotten more than 5 sc, and I got those 5 with nothing else done in the month. Funny.
I would love to see the reserve cap raised to 75 hrs. Problem is that regular guarantee is 65. We would need to raise that too. Getting in to that gets in to the ALV windows and the moving window. If we raised the regular to 70 then the lowest our window could go would be in the upper 70's. That reduces staffing etc.
Now what we could do is raise reserve guarantee to ALV-5 not to go below 70. That way you get 70 and when the ALV is 82 you get 77 hrs of min. That way we are not getting in to multiple sections of the contract that need to be rewritten to get a few hrs of pay.
Thoughts?